guard rescues, roads washed out, homes and memories destroyed-- and the new threat looming in the gulf. new dangers. why a change in the weather could spark more wildfires in oregon. the intense fight out west tonight to save homes. russia at it again. tonight the f.b.i. director says there is a steady drum beat of misinformation to denigrate joe biden and interfere in the 2020 election. outrage over the attorney general's remarks comparing pandemic shutdowns to slavery. and a young woman turns to social media to save her father's taco truck. a story about the kindness of strangers. >> this is the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. reporting from the nation's capitol. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with the growing and potentially dangerous rift between the white house and the president's top

scientific aors over tonight cbs at cdictorertse expert, dr. anthony fauci, have been sidelined from the president's coronavirus task force. that news comes after a stunning rebuke of dr. redfield by president trump saying redfied, who has spent his career studying viruses and heads the world's premier public health agency, misunderstood the question when he testified under oath it will take until the middle of next year to vaccinate enough americans to limit the spread of covid. with the election just 47 days away, the president keeps suggesting a vaccine will be ready before americans cast their ballot. now, that is something that most experts including the government's own stists say is just not true for the general public. and that disagreement has lead to a day-long fight pitting versus spin, the kind of political fight you might expect in an election year, only this

time american lives and the economy are at stake. as we come on the air the number of people killed by coronavirus in the u.s. is now nearly 200,000. and tonight the country's largest public school system, new york city is abruptly canceling its plans to start in- person learning for all students on monday. there is a lot of new reporting to get to tonight. our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' paula reid will lead off our coverage tonight from the white house. good evening, paula. >> reporter: good evening, norah. today president trump continued to tease the possibility of an earlier than expected vaccine but former administration officials tell cbs news they're concerned that health experts are being pressured to approve a vaccine for political reasons. president trump continued to claim today that a vaccine will be ready very soon. a prediction critics say he's making with november 3 in mind. >> the vaccine is way ahead of schedule, but i'm being criticized for bringing it back too fast. >> reporter: but the c.d.c. and

most health experts say directoe spring or summer next year for for most americans is accurate. a former senior administration official tells cbs news the white house cares more about messaging than solving the problem of the virus and that they're being asked to do things they don't want to. the tension between the two is on display wednesday when redfield discussed the availability of the vaccine. >> i think we're probably looking at thir-- late second quarter, third quarter 2021. >> i think he made a mistake when he said that. >> reporter: former acting c.d.c. director richard besser. >> when you see the president publicly undermining the head of the c.d.c., it gives people room to question the public health advice. and what is happening in this nation is people are choosing whether or not to follow the recommendations of public health. >> one former white house

official upset with the president's handling of the pandemic is going public with her endorsement of joe biden. >> i'm olivia troy. >> reporter: olivia troye, a former homeland security advisor to vice president mike pence released a video today describing what she saw in the white house. >> when we were in a task force meeting the president said maybe this covid thing is a good thing. i don't like shaking hands with people, you don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. >> reporter: the vice president dismissed her concerns. >> it reads to me like one more disgruntled employee, who has left the white house and decided to play politics during an an election year. >> reporter: a source close to redfield say he is not expected to resign from the c.d.c. despite clashing publicly with the president. but scientists at the c.d.c. say the white house still has such tight control over the messaging relating to covid, they're worried critical public health information is not being disseminated in a timely manner. asm png extrely

difficult in the nation's largest school system. new york city has once again pushed back the start of in- person learning for most of its one million students. some will have to wait another week. others longer. here's nikki battiste. >> that is when we fight, fight, fight! >> reporter: today's delay comes as pressure from teachers and parents worried about safety continue to grow across the city. with a shortage of teachers silling to go into schools, and to far more than 40% of parents opting for remote learning. mayor de blasio tried to put a positive spin on the news. >> we are doing this to make sure that all the standards we've set can be achieved. >> reporter: the city will add 4,500 additional school staff but a new report issued today puts the number needed at nearly 12,000. teacher corinthia marisol spath says she is worried. >> i'm so nervous.

i'm really nervous. and i know my family is nervous. rerly 40 the u.s. organization is now warning about an alarming spike across europe. nikki battiste, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: today the biotech firm moderna took an unprecedented attempt at transparency, releasing its protocols on how it will determine if its coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective. the company's vaccine uses what is called m.r.n.a. technology. that is a type of vaccine that has never been brought to market. we spoke with moderna's 'sesident dr. stephen hoge in our series "racing to a cure." how soon will we know when a moderna vaccine is working? >> it's very hard to know for sure. we have announced today that we made a good progress in phase three trials, we enrolled over 25,000 of the 30,000 30,000 participants in that trial.

but now we're going to depend upon those people, unfortunately, getting sick. our best estimate that the earliest it can happen is the later part of the fa, happen much later or much sooner depending on the rate of transmission in the country. >> o'donnell: is moderna feeling political pressure? >> we haven't been feeling direct political pressure but definitely feel the social pressure of this moment. the goal of developing a vaccine is not to get a vaccine approved, it is to stop the pandemic, and that will only happen if hundreds of millions of americans agree to get vaccinated. americans agree that will only happen if they have confidence in the data and the vaccine. so what we did today in publishing our fully unredacted protocol, but also in our presentations around that is the goal of being transparent. >> o'donnell: so will moderna commit to publicly releasing all of its results before a vaccine becomes available? >> we're absolutely committed to publishing and releasing the data before the vaccine becomes available. >> o'donnell: what is the goal of this vaccine? >> the goal of this vaccine, as

is all vaccines, is to stop the pandemic. we all want to get back to a normal life. if we can reduce this to a common cold, then i think most of us would feel like we can get back to most of our lives. >> o'donnell: so, given that the moderna m.r.n.a. vaccinedoes ree infection, do some age groups fare better than others? >> that is a great question. so, first, we don't know whether it will prevent infection or not yet. we are waiting for phase three data but we think the more likely is it will prevent severe particularly covid-19. what is really exciting news that we announced today is that we released data previously presented to the c.d.c. on elderly americans in phase one and showed we had the same level of protection in the elderly as we have seen in the younger population. that gives us hope and optimism that our vaccine will be able to will be able to protect the highest risk population,

particularly those over the age of 65 who are bearing the brunt of covid-19. >> o'donnell: dr. stephen hoge, thank you so much. >> thank you very much for your rime, norah. >> o'donnell: and tonight what is left of hurricane sally is dumping rain across the carolinas and southern virginia. the storm battered the gulf coast of alabama and florida nhnhandle wednesday with winds topping a hundred miles an hour. two and a half feet of rain and a surge of sea water. at least two people were killed. cbs' manuel bojorquez got a bird's eye view of the trail of destruction. >> reporter: from the air we saw how much devastation hurricane sally left behind, riding along with u.s. customs and border patrol. we have come across a bridge here in pensacola that is missing not just one large section, but two. and from up here it appears what happened is these barges that were on the water came loose. roofs peeled away, boats scattered, areas cut off by downed trees or flooding. back on the ground everyone was busy today with rescues and

cleanup. richard franzen wasn't just upset about his flooded house. >> i'm a veteran and i have a memorial back there. and it is underwater. i lost some of my friends in vietnam. but it's gone. >> reporter: just remnants left of the storm now, but it is but it is still enough to deluge parts of georgia and the carolina. heavy rains are expected to continue to wreak havoc from virginia to north carolina through the night before the storm moves out over the atlantic. back in mobile, alabama, pastor jonathan yaits is thankful sally wasn't worse. >> we were thankful that there was no life lost. >> reporter: and you can see behind me the steeple of the pastor's church dangling off t it was knocked over by winds that topped 80 miles per hour as the hurricane swept through this area. also tonight a warning for residents along the florida panhandle not to let their guard down, there could be more flooding on the way as rivers crest.

norah. >> o'donnell: thinking of all those parishioners there, thank you so much. now to the west where yosemite national park was shut down today because of dangerous air quality from those deadly wildfires. thunderstorms may help clear the air but as cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports they could also cause new dangers. >> so the main fires up there. >> reporter: thousands live through the nightmare. this man recorded it. anthony jacobson a resident of the town of gates oregon documenting the chaos, embers flying all around. this is what the fires left behind. among those who lost their homes, volunteer firefighter kevin bakke and his wife, jan. >> it is real surreal to see your own home on fire. i was just so relieved that my family was okay. >> in oregon, thick, suffocating smoke still hangs in the air. almost 250 miles of road remain

closed and hundreds of thousands of trees need to be removed. the risk clearly evident by what happened to this oregon state trooper. amazingly no one was hurt. meanwhile fires continue to rage in california. now dramatic video from cameras mounted on helmets of firefighters as they desperately tried to save homes, battling until the only way out was through a wall of flames. back in oregon, anthony jacobson returned to find something extraordinary... >> look what i just found. >> reporter: ...his kitten. >> we were so scared that he wouldn't make it. it's a miracle, after four days no food, no water, it kind of gives you hope. >> reporter: and there is hope, here isong and crippled road ahead. the military blocked off hundreds of miles working in smokey conditions that make it difficult to breathe. rain is in the forecast and also lightning which could spark new fires. norah. >> o'donnell: jonathan vigliotti, thank you for your

reporting. some news today from f.b.i. director chris wray who told congress that russia is very active in trying to interfere in the presidential election. and the kremlin's goal is to denigrate joe biden. wray also spoke with president trump by calling antifa an ideology, not an organization. the president wants to label antifa a terrorist group. instead, wray told lawmakers that it is white supremacist group are the biggest focus of f.b.i. investigations. turning now to the shocking comments from attorney general william barr comparing coronavirus stay at home orders to slavery. here's cbs's jeff pegues. >> attorney general william barr is under fire tonight for comparing the coronavirus lockdown to slavery. >> stay at home orders is like house arrest. it is, you know, other than slavery which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in american history. >> that remark brought swift

condemn nation from the highest ranking african-american in congress. >> it is incredible >> it is incredible. that the chief law enforcement officer in this country to an expert advice to save lives. >> reporter: barr is taking an extremely hard line against those protesting police violence, even considering charges them with sedition. it is faced hisdale college they said the black lives matter movement uses props to advance veeir cause. >> they are not interested in black lives, they're interested in props. insmall number of blacks who were killed by police during conflict with police, usually less tdon ar.port: the daua shows the 2eople re shot ailled by police last barr also defended his decision to intervene in the case of former trump aide michael flynn

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this is the "cbs overnight news." good morning. i'm kris van cleave in washington. thanks for staying with utt. new details are emerging on the apparent poisons of russian opposition liter alexei in a valley. colleagues say tests reveal traces of a soviet nerve agent on the water bottle they mound his room. navalny is out of a coma and recovering in a not germany. he says he's happy to be able to breathe on his own and is vowing to return to russia. the kremlin denies any involvement in the attack. charlie d'agata has the report. >> reporter: the photo purports

to show members of his team combing through his hotel room claim jer nanolab confirmed traces of november chuck were detected on the water bottle in the hotel room. he fell violently illinois and was air lifted to berlin for agreement p treatment it was originally thoughts the novichok had been slipped into his tea before the flight. never a likely scenario, says chemical weapons expert. >> alwater bottle would ensure that navalny would poison himself. >>t is tha daerou abinie any involvement in the poisons of

president vladimir putin's fiercest opponent. a picture was put up on social media. he's breathed on his own all day. visiting the u.k., mike pompeo says any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable sunday dip in circumstances. navalny's team said they intend to return to russia. >> charlie d'agata reporting. thanks, chaemplt close thoerm, as the small semester gets into full swing college campuses have become the newist hot spots for the pan democrat ij. more than 88,000 positive test it is at american universities. some skroolgs swichd to on line classes. others have closed down completely. that's thrown a lot of people out of their dorms and off their meal plans with few alternatives. meg oliver has the